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A ])olice officer may arrest without warrant any person found gaming in any public market, fair, street or thorouglifarc or any place to which the public have or are ]>eriuitted to have access, or any person, setting, for the purpose of gaming, any birds or animals to fight in any- public market, fair, street or thoroughfare or in any place to which the public have or are permitted to have access; or any person there present, aiding and abetting such public fighting of birds and animals. Sucli ])ers(ui, when arrested, shall be produced before the nearest magistrate within a period of twenty-four hours oi snci-i arrest excluding the time ue(;essary for the .lourney from the place of arrest to the court of the magistrate an" ni.iou conviction shall he puuivshable with fine not exceeding two hundred rupees or with imprisonment for a term imt exceeding one month or with both, Gaming and sotting birds and animals to Bgbt in public streets. and .sucli police officer may seize all birds and anima ^ . ii^stnimeuts of ganiiug foaud in such public marxe , fair, street or tboroughfave or place or on the person o those whom be shall so arrest, and the magistrate , convit Uon of the olfemler, ^order such instriimeuts forthwith destroyed and such birds aud animals to '6 and tlio proceeds thereof to be forfeited. 11" A police officer may arrest without warrant any ])ersoii win.) prints, publishes, sells, distributes or m manner circulates any newspaper, news-sheet c document or any news or information witJi the luten lo aiding or facilitating gaming; and any police officer may enter and seaixh any for the purpose of seizing, and may seize all things " ably suspected to be used or to be intended to be used tor purpose aforesaid. iXlUX tJCStllkl • All persons taken, in. c.ustocly as aforesaid shall he before the iieare.st magistrnte within a period ot twcu y- hours of such ariest excluding- the time newissary or journey from tlie place of arrest to the court oi tie magistrate. magisiraie. Power of police - officer to outer ond orresb persons, who print, publish, etc., matters relating to gaming. Each of all siudi persona shall he punishable, on convic tion, with fine not exceeding two hundred rupees or with impiisonment for a term not exceeding one mouth or with both. The 1^654 Bengal GanrMing and Prize Gonvpetitione Act,